Description

White Hills seventh studio album, So You Are So Youll Be, features Dave W on guitars, synthesizer and vocals, EgoSensation on bass, synthesizer and vocals, and Nick Name on drums. The album is their most concentrated blast of psychedelic interstellar rock to date. Building on the solid foundations laid by last years excellent Frying On This Rock, they went back to BC Studios, Brooklyn to record once more with Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans), emerging with a concentrated blast of White Hills at their fullest potential.

So You Are So Youll Be is a blazing totem of rock & roll empowerment. After the deconditioning and deprogramming blast of electronic noise which is InWords, the album opens properly with the call to arms In Your Room, a skyscraper razing slab of mantra metal, which bids you abandon all doubt and fear so you can start your quest into inner space. The Internal Monologue is an ecstatic shivering sliver of celestial acidic drone followed by the post-Hawkwind transmission of So You Are So Youll Be.

White Hills command that you cower before the altar of the mind warping, machinetooled riff that is Forever In Space (Enlightened), but after this cataclysmic shock, there is barely time to process what just happened before you are lowered into the howling lysergic swamp rock of Rare Upon The Earth. Only the echoing synthesized landscape of Circulating offers some respite. The album builds effortlessly to the sumptuous MIST (Winter) which features a John Carpenter synth line engine inserted into a glistening La Dusseldorf chassis, forming some kind of god-like chariot.

Deluxe LP version is pressed on high quality virgin vinyl and presented in an old-style tip-on gatefold jacket with UV high gloss printing and free download coupon.

A very small amount of the LPs first pressing will be available on green vinyl.

The LP will also be available exclusively to independent retailers in the UK packaged with a bonus 3 track 12 featuring 30 minutes of all-new material. This format is expected to be extremely limited. This bonus material will not be available anywhere else.

White Hills also appear in the new Jim Jarmusch film Only Lovers Left Alive in both speaking and performing roles. The film premiered at Cannes in May and is now being distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.

Space rock is often ethereal; other times it f*cking slays. White Hills is all over the latter. The New York outfit has spent the last several years honing its savage, celestially heaviness, and its upcoming Thrill Jockey full-length, So You Are So Youll Be is another step beyond. A.V. Club